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signatures in one day in an online petition to stop sopa. that one-day protest resulted in a stunning 19 members of congress in one day in the senate abandoning their support for the two bills, including i love this detail -- 11 cosponsors. 11 people with names on the legislation after that one day decided no longer to support it. chris dodd said those bills were supposed to be a slam dunk but now he, quote, could not remember seeing an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically. he went on to compare to the arab spring which i think was not the metaphor he wanted to be on the wrong side of. yesterday we learned that harry reid postponed tuesday's procedural vote on the bill. a website said we were the first cable news show to breakthrough with a series discussion about sopa. we had a discussion last week with richard cotton. a company we work for is strongly, strongly in favor of the legislation. here's a little bit of that discussion. >> in terms of what the legislation actually does, saying this wouldn't a
signatures in one day in an online petition to stop sopa. that one-day protest resulted in a stunning 19 members of congress in one day in the senate abandoning their support for the two bills, including i love this detail -- 11 cosponsors. 11 people with names on the legislation after that one day decided no longer to support it. chris dodd said those bills were supposed to be a slam dunk but now he, quote, could not remember seeing an effort that was moving with this degree of support change...
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privacy and internet freedom groups that raised alarms about the sopa and pipa legislation says this threatens the privacy of internet users and consumers. it's in the senate and you should know without a swarm of public attention which that defeated sopa, the congress is highly unlike to detail privacy concerns. what do you think we should know as the week unfolds. >> may day. tuesday. beginning first thing in the morning and there are million things taking place throughout new york city. people are organizing 99 pickets in the 99% spirit, but against corporations and supporting labor unions and workers organizing. throughout the day, different things taking place, popular education taking place in madison park and union square has a permanent rally, immigrant rights rally a concert with tom morello. >> and very have viewers across country. >> all over the country. look on occupytogether.org and you will find in your city, town, or village something happening. there will be millions of people doing something, and even if you're not in the street mobilizing, do something differently.
privacy and internet freedom groups that raised alarms about the sopa and pipa legislation says this threatens the privacy of internet users and consumers. it's in the senate and you should know without a swarm of public attention which that defeated sopa, the congress is highly unlike to detail privacy concerns. what do you think we should know as the week unfolds. >> may day. tuesday. beginning first thing in the morning and there are million things taking place throughout new york...
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there's a bunch of arguments that people make against sopa. one there's different levels of which the argument happens. the pragmatic argument is, okay, fine we agree and i'm just talking for myself ate problem that there are websites with you can go and download these things. >> agreed. >> why won't it solve the problem? >> piracy is a service program. solve the problem in bad markets like russia by offering a service more valuable to people than piracy. >> what do you mean by service? >> pirates can deliver something easier than you can get otherwise when you have to wait three months to get access to something. when there are bar towers getting the information the content you want people will go through other means. if you can provide a service that's better you can win with business. as an entrepreneur i see piracy as an opportunity. >> let me respond to that quickly. people make that argument. in the era of when file sharing first explode with college dorms downloading i think there was a strong case to be made a lot of what was happening
there's a bunch of arguments that people make against sopa. one there's different levels of which the argument happens. the pragmatic argument is, okay, fine we agree and i'm just talking for myself ate problem that there are websites with you can go and download these things. >> agreed. >> why won't it solve the problem? >> piracy is a service program. solve the problem in bad markets like russia by offering a service more valuable to people than piracy. >> what do you...
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and he's got this great -- when he's talking about the sopa legislation, the stop online piracy act, which he and a lot of activists fought very hard because it would have restricted that information, allowed service providers to cut off access to certain people. this is him talking about the battle being over the metaphor we're using in our heads to think about this information. take a look. >> there's a battle going on right now, a battle to define everything that happens on the internet in terms of traditional things that the law understands. sharing a video like shoplifting from a movie store? or is it like loaning a videotape to a friend? is reloading a web page over and over again like a peaceful virtual cidin or a shopping of shop windows? is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder? this bill would be a huge, potentially permanent loss, if we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change to the bill of rights, the freedoms guaranteed in our constitution, the freedoms our country had been built on wou
and he's got this great -- when he's talking about the sopa legislation, the stop online piracy act, which he and a lot of activists fought very hard because it would have restricted that information, allowed service providers to cut off access to certain people. this is him talking about the battle being over the metaphor we're using in our heads to think about this information. take a look. >> there's a battle going on right now, a battle to define everything that happens on the...
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look at sopa. how did hollywood get turned on its head? because of online organizing and basically a bottom up -- >> but they pushed on the legislative front. that was a legislative push. it wasn't trying to get companies on their own -- >> all i'm saying is that came out of an organization to hold everyone accountable. >> there was a grass roots decision on the internet. >> yeah, that's the way politics works. sure. that's the way politics works. >> and more dynamic, the fresher, new technology. google beat hollywood and other interests. >> but if you don't think there was a free speech movement that buoyed that corporate fieght, than i think that's the -- >> you just said a statement that is really radical. citizens organizing have more power than regulators, regulators, in theory, are backed up by the force -- >> i'm just saying that the dynamic of relative games is favoring citizens over regulators. >> yes, yes, yes. >> can you regulate in an environment in which you sort of have this level of capture. i'm going to get your thoughts on
look at sopa. how did hollywood get turned on its head? because of online organizing and basically a bottom up -- >> but they pushed on the legislative front. that was a legislative push. it wasn't trying to get companies on their own -- >> all i'm saying is that came out of an organization to hold everyone accountable. >> there was a grass roots decision on the internet. >> yeah, that's the way politics works. sure. that's the way politics works. >> and more...